Currently, I am Vice Dean with responsibility for UiB´s strategic area Climate and Energy transition. I am also part of the research group for Sustainable Energy Carriers, Chemicals and Materials, where I participate in projects such as Ammonia Production via Electrocatalytic Processes (AmPEP) and FME HyValue

My main research interests are intermolecular interactions at static and dynamic liquid-liquid and solid-liquid interfaces, including the interplay between chemical interactions and hydrodynamic flows. My research combines experimental work, mathematical modelling and numerical simulations with relevance to a range of scientific areas including electrocatalytic production of sustainable energy carriers and transport in porous media.

Before joining UiB as an Associate Professor in 2013, I was Principal Researcher at Uni CIPR (now a part of Norce Energy, 2003-2013), senior reservoir Engineer at Norsk Hydro Research Center in Bergen (2001-2003), and  postdoctoral research fellow funded by The Research Council of Norway (RCN). As a Phd Student I had two extended (> 6 months) research stays abroad, one at the New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center, Socorro, USA and one at the School of Petroleum Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

In the period 2003-2013 I was actively involved in the establishment and coordination of one of Norway´s first Centers of Excellence (CoE), the Center for Integrated Petroleum Research, as one of three research leaders. During my ten years as research leader for the enhanced oil recovery group at CIPR I was active in developing and starting up a wide range of projects with both national and international participants from oil companies, chemical companies, universities and research institutions, and I have been project leader (PL) or principal investigator (PI) in several projects funded by RCN, including Nanotechnology EOR - LPS flood for North Sea reservoirs (PL), EOR Methods – Moving Science into Applications (PI) and EOR for Maximising Tail Production, (PI).

Teaching

Kristine Spildo has been responsible for teaching and developing courses at undergraduate and graduate level in surface and colloid chemistry and chemical thermodynamics. She is presently responsible for the course KJEM210 - Chemical Thermodynamics

Supervision and mentoring

16 MSc students, all as main advisor,  and 11 PhD students, 3 as main advisor, have graduated under Kristine Spildo´s supervision:

• Alette Løbø Viken. Viscosity and Viscoelastic Properties in Hydrophobically Modified Polymers for Enhanced Oil Recovery, 2019.
• Annette Johannessen. Low Salinity Surfactant Flooding in Sandstone cores, 2018
• Abdulejil Kedir. Nanoparticle for Enhanced Oil Recovery Formation and Characterization of Linked Polymer Solution by Rheology and NMR, 2014.
• Behruz Shiran. Enhanced Oil Recovery by Combined Low Salinity Water and Polymer Flooding, 2014.
• Saeed Fallah. Mechanistic network Modelling of Water-based Enhanced Oil recovery Methods, 2012.
• Bartek Vik. Characterisation and Representative Elementary Volume for a Vuggy Carbonate, 2011.
• Hamidreza Nasiri. Enzymes for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), part of EOR for Maximising Tail Production, 2011.
• Edin Alagic. Combination of low salinity water flooding with surfactant injection - A new hybrid EOR process, 2010.
• Audun Nergård Nyre. Network Modelling of Multi-Phase Flow in Porous Media, 2009.
• Linda Kaada Høiland The impact of intermediate wet states on two-phase flow in porous media, studied by network modelling, 2006.

Faglig foredrag

• Spildo, Kristine (2023). Hydrogen and ammonia research and education at UiB. (ekstern lenke)
• Spildo, Kristine (2016). “(Mat)nyttige emulsjoner- kjemi på kjøkken og bad". (ekstern lenke)
• Spildo, Kristine (2014). Hva er sammenhengen mellom vekten av en dråpe og oljeutvinning?. (ekstern lenke)

Doktorgradsavhandling

• Viken, Alette Løbø; Spildo, Kristine; Skauge, Tormod (2019). Viscosity and Viscoelastic Properties in Hydrophobically Modified Polymers for Enhanced Oil Recovery. (ekstern lenke)
• Johannessen, Annette Meland; Spildo, Kristine; Skauge, Arne (2018). Low Salinity Surfactant Flooding in Sandstone Cores. (ekstern lenke)
• Spildo, Kristine (1999). Wettability and two-phase flow in capillary systems. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig artikkel

• Endo Kokubun, Max Akira; Muntean, Adrian; Radu, Florin Adrian et al. (2019). A pore-scale study of transport of inertial particles by water in porous media. (ekstern lenke)
• Viken, Alette Løbø; Skauge, Tormod; Svendsen, Per Erik et al. (2018). Thermothickening and salinity tolerant hydrophobically modified polyacrylamides for polymer flooding. (ekstern lenke)
• Viken, Alette Løbø; Spildo, Kristine; Reichenbach-Klinke, Roland et al. (2018). Influence of weak hydrophobic interactions on in situ viscosity of a hydrophobically modified water-soluble polymer. (ekstern lenke)
• Endo Kokubun, Max Akira; Radu, Florin Adrian; Keilegavlen, Eirik et al. (2018). Transport of polymer particles in oil–water flow in porous media: Enhancing oil recovery. (ekstern lenke)
• Viken, Alette Løbø; Skauge, Tormod; Spildo, Kristine (2016). Rheological properties of a hydrophobically modified anionic polymer: Effect of varying salinity and amount of hydrophobic moieties. (ekstern lenke)
• Spildo, Kristine; Sæ, Endre Ivar Østvik (2015). Effect of charge distribution on the viscosity and viscoelastic properties of partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide. (ekstern lenke)
• Sun, Limei; Spildo, Kristine; Djurhuus, Ketil et al. (2014). Salinity Selection for a Low Salinity Water-Low Salinity Surfactant Process. (ekstern lenke)
• Spildo, Kristine; Sun, Limei; Djurhuus, Ketil et al. (2014). A strategy for low cost, effective surfactant injection. (ekstern lenke)
• Johannessen, Annette Meland; Spildo, Kristine (2014). Can lowering the injection brine salinity further increase oil recovery by surfactant injection under otherwise similar conditions?. (ekstern lenke)
• Johannessen, Annette Meland; Spildo, Kristine (2013). Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) by combining surfactant with low salinity injection. (ekstern lenke)
• Sun, Limei; Spildo, Kristine; Djurhuus, Ketil et al. (2013). Salinity Selection for a Low Salinity Water-Low Salinity Surfactant Process. (ekstern lenke)
• Alagic, Edin; Spildo, Kristine; Skauge, Arne et al. (2011). Effect of crude oil ageing on low salinity and low salinity surfactant flooding. (ekstern lenke)
• Spildo, Kristine; Skauge, Arne; Aarra, Morten Gunnar et al. (2009). A New Polymer Application for North Sea Reservoirs. (ekstern lenke)
• Høiland, Linda Kåda; Spildo, Kristine; Skauge, Arne (2007). Fluid flow properties for different classes of intermediate wettability as studied by network modelling. (ekstern lenke)
• Skauge, Arne; Spildo, Kristine; Høiland, Linda Kåda et al. (2007). Theoretical and experimental evidence of different wettability classes. (ekstern lenke)
• Spildo, Kristine; Blokhus, Anne Marit; Andersson, Annette (2001). Surface and Interfacial Properties of Octanoic acid Octylamine Mixtures in iso-Octane-Water Systems: Influence of Acid: Amine Molar Ratio and Aquous Phase pH. (ekstern lenke)
• Spildo, Kristine; Buckley, J. S. (2000). Uniform and mixed wetting in square capillaries. (ekstern lenke)
• Spildo, Kristine; Høiland, Harald (1999). Interfacial Properties and Partitioning of 4-Heptylbenzoic Acid between Decane and Water. (ekstern lenke)

Fagartikkel

• Spildo, Kristine (2015). Use of active learning techniques in the teaching of surface and colloid science in a small class setting. (ekstern lenke)

Populærvitenskapelig foredrag

• Spildo, Kristine (2015). Sammenhengen mellom vekten av en dråpe og oljeutvinning.. (ekstern lenke)

Vitenskapelig foredrag

• Skauge, Tormod; Spildo, Kristine; Skauge, Arne (2010). Nanosized particles for EOR, paper SPE 129933. (ekstern lenke)
• Spildo, Kristine; Skauge, Arne; Skauge, Tormod (2010). Propagation of Colloidal Dispersion Gels (CDG) in Laboratory Corefloods, paper SPE 129927. (ekstern lenke)
• Skauge, Tormod; Spildo, Kristine; Hetland, Sverre et al. (2010). Nano-sized particles for EOR. (ekstern lenke)
• Spildo, Kristine; Berg, Julie; Sandvik, Sigmund et al. (2010). Propagation of colloidal dispersion gels (CDG) in laboratory core floods. (ekstern lenke)
• Alagic, Edin; Solbakken, Jonas; Spildo, Kristine et al. (2010). Experimental results of low salinity waterflooding combined with surfactant flooding. (ekstern lenke)
• Sun, Limei; Spildo, Kristine; Djurhuus, Ketil et al. (2010). Relationship between surfactant injectivity, phase behavior and retention in porous medium. (ekstern lenke)
• Pourmohammadi, Shahram; Hetland, Sverre; Spildo, Kristine et al. (2007). Fluid flow properties of different carbonate pore classes correlations to oil recovery. (ekstern lenke)
• Vik, Bartek Florczyk; Djurhuus, Ketil; Spildo, Kristine et al. (2007). Characterisation of vuggy carbonate. (ekstern lenke)
• Spildo, Kristine; Buckley, Jill S. (1996). Mixed Wetting in Square Capillaries. (ekstern lenke)

Rapport

• Spildo, Kristine; Buckley, Jill S. (1997). Mixed Wetting in Square Glass Capillaries. (ekstern lenke)

Hovedfagsoppgave

• Spildo, Kristine (1996). Kompleksdannelse mellom cyclodextriner og polare organiske molekyl studert ved hjelp av volum og kompressibiliteter. (ekstern lenke)

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